How old are you?

"What about me?"

Bed.
Beds are used as places of comfort and sanctuary, as a place to relax and rest. Everybody loves to sleep, relax, have sex, be lazy, cuddle up, be warm and all other things that come with the bed as a space. So what about whoever owned this bed? Where do they have now? And what will the bed do now without anyone to love it? It probably doesn't matter, it's just something else that needed an upgrade anyway.

Day Three:


Day Four:

© All images, Ruth Johnston 2009

This bed has been sitting outside for days and days. It looks so sad and rubbish. I'm looking at it for the spaces part of my Documentary Practices brief. I've sort of abandoned the panoramic idea, after looking at the catalogues for previous exhibitions and seeing it would be a major inconvenience to everyone. But I'm still kind of looking at the abandoned space. But more turned it into 'the abandoned thing'. I've changed the idea to be more about human presence within objects and how it effects the way we read them, rather than human presence in vast spaces - I mean the only way the previous ideas would really be experienced would be in an exhibition context, which is fine but when it has to fit all manner of other mediums, it begins to become a bit tricky. This is better though, and I can accompany it with text, which I wanted to do but was finding harder with the panoramas.
Does seem like I've thrown it together but the progression is kind of visible, hopefully. Well, I have a tutorial tomorrow so I guess I'll get some advice then.
One week to go and then I can focus documentary practices on anything. Going to write letters to some big department stores and photograph the shoppers (if I get permission), I want to do Ikea (Martin Parr inspired), either that or binge drinking - there are plenty of articles for research and Portsmouth is a great place to focus on - and it can carry on from my abysmal effort for Text & The Photographic Image, last semester.
Definitely not going to go the Nan Goldin route whatever I decide, can't match it and no one else can either. I'll update on how many people choose her style once we get Brief 2.

BrightonBiffy.

Will update with photos when I get the time.
Biffy Clyro were pretty amazing, despite the £21.30 train fare up to London, it was pretty worth it and it was a nice sit down gig.

Pretty busy non-productive day, which is pretty annoying.
Should have done much more work this week than I have and I can pretty much kiss goodbye to that, what with both my sister and Moon's brother being down..

...Thinking about making this private so only followers can see.
Some people can be secretively nosey.

Oh hey there Jordan/Katie Price/I'msickofhearingaboutyou.

Does it even matter that Peter 'I've only ever had/am going to have one hit song in my life ever' Andre has divorced you?
No, so go away.

Space and place.

The theme for this documentary practices brief is space and territory. I have chosen to focus on panoramic images as they can make smaller, intimate spaces seem vast and much bigger than they actually are. I haven't chosen what kind of images I will actually be taking for this set but after reviewing these images, I'm thinking about looking at different spaces at different times of day as it might be interesting to see the impact that people have on one space over the course of a day.
I can produce between four and ten prints so the sorting process should be quite easy once I have enough images to choose from.















Biffy Clyro tonight, I asked them if I could bring my SLR to work for the project but they said no because very few press are even going to be allowed to photograph. Lame. I'm still quite excited though and I can always bring my compact I suppose, they don't need to know that it's 10MP too.
Need to look over things for lecture on Friday and scan it in for the digital RDB... why is everything so hectic. I hope it will calm down when this brief is over and I start the next one, mind you it doesn't seem like many people on the course have even really started this one yet. Not that I've even done loads.
Updates soon.x